The effects of fragmentation of agricultural land on productivity in Soltanieh city

Majid Tahrie¹ Ibrahim khalaji²

1) Master s degree in business-strategic management (active in agriculture in Soltanieh city
2) Head of vegetable production of Soltanieh city

IOI Code : AZGC-AZKGAE
Publication : 1St International conference on new horizons in management,business, economics and humanities(icmbe.com)
Abstract :
    In general, land fragmentation is a general feature of all agricultural systems that affects agricultural land productivity, and there has been no report on the absence of land fragmentation in rural areas. Therefore, this study seeks to prove the effects of land fragmentation on agricultural land productivity in Soltaniyeh County using cross-sectional data collected from 240 respondents during the harvest seasons in 1402 and 1403 and analyzed using linear production functions and Cobb-Douglass. In the land productivity model, 38% of the changes in agricultural land productivity are explained by changes in independent variables, including land fragmentation parameters. The average size of agricultural land is 1.25 hectares as the minimum size that can produce the minimum food and financial needs of an average family of five people. Therefore, the government should provide a land use policy and population control program to determine the minimum economic size of agricultural land, improve agricultural land productivity, and find ways to strengthen off-farm activities and the livestock sector to attract more labor and promote more income-generating tools to reduce the minimum size of agricultural land.

Keywords : fragmentation sultaniyeh agricultural lands effects